Year: 2006

Laughing Squid received a Ferrari 1000 from Microsoft for testing and blogging.Hope the laptop works. I was able to source (with excellent support from AMD) 3 of these beauties to show off at our Virtualization Summits early next year. Unfortunately all 3 did not work with Vista. I had constant system hangs and never got…

GogDeskYeah Still not officially of course. But it is a snap with a little help from the latest Parallels Desktop for Mac and its coherence feature. If you have a spare Windows (XP) license or run Windows on your Mac anyways.

Parallels certainly adds a coolness factor to Virtualization. The latest beta build of Parallels Desktop for Mac allows launching of Windows apps from the OS X dock. Like Christian asks in a private email informing me about this new beta: “Do these guys ever stop?” I hope they don’t stop and continue to innovate!

Jeremy is one of the Samba (Windows file sharing for Linux) founding fathers. He’s leaving after Novell and Microsoft signed their patent agreement. c|net quotes from Jeremy’s resignation letter published on Groklaw: “Until the patent provision is revoked, we are pariahs …”

Now it is official. The Microsoft flagship email server has been released to manufacturing (RTM). Yeah, great job! Check out the team blog and others have the news. In Terry’s words on the team blog: “We’ve bet the company on this product. Here at Microsoft, we have over 120,000 mailboxes running in production on Exchange…

Wow, it is amazing to see how well this program is accepted by costumers and by Microsoft partners. Impressive download numbers for the freely available images from the VHD Download Center. It looks like the team is drowning in questions and requests for the license agreement. We should make it available online. The PressPass article…

Virtualization is cool and there is more than just hype. We all got that. Developments in AMD and Intel processor architecture certainly help fostering adoption and spreading the technology. The newest processors have or will have support for virtual environments built in and products like Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 will take advantage in providing…

If you are an Independent Software Vendor or ISV working with Windows you have most likely heard about the VHD Test Drive by now. The program launched officially on Monday. The program consists of 2 parts: Part 1 is for everyone. Currently everyone can download 4 images from the VHD Download Center. The number is…